The state of Texas has found at least 117 prisoners innocent of crimes for which they were convicted in the past 25 years and a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to know why errors were made. The ...

A down-ballot race for New Orleans clerk of criminal court has turned contentious, as candidate Calvin Duncan, who spent three decades in prison before his conviction was vacated, faces attacks from ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The case of convicted wife killer Scott Peterson has sparked new attention on exonerations in the United States following the announcement that the LA Innocence Project has taken up ...

Justice is never done when a wrongfully convicted prisoner is released and exonerated. The injustice of the original wrongful conviction may be undone, and the innocent person might rightly receive ...